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to one of the carrier corps were utilized for the purpose. Capt. T. 

 Timbrel, who was in command of the carrier corps concerned, 

 kindly allowed the coolies to assist in the collection of specimens, 

 and it is entirely owing to the interest which they evinced that so 

 large a number was obtained. 



The specimens were all found under stones and this is a point 

 of some interest seeing that all the Malayan species were found 

 in dead wood. There was an abundance of rotten wood in the 

 vicinity of Rotung and from it large collections of insects were 

 made, but no Peripatus were ever discovered in such a situation. 

 The majorit}' of the specimens were found in chinks and crannies 

 under comparatively large stones among the roots of jungle 

 plants : we found it useless to search under small stones or those 

 that were very large and deeply rooted. It needed considerable 

 effort to obtain any number of examples, though several were 

 often found under a single stone. Solitary individuals were 

 occasionally met with, but more usually two to four adults accom- 

 panied by a number of young (sometimes as many as six) were 

 collected together. 



The Abor country has a very high rainfall and the expedition 

 was undertaken during the driest months of the year. Many 

 animals appeared to be seeking wet places in order to tide over this 

 period of comparative drought, and the closed chambers behind 

 the leaf-stems of plantains, where the air must always have been 

 saturated with water- vapour, were inhabited by a large com- 

 munity of beetles, earwigs, slugs, snails, planarians, earth-worms 

 and frogs; Peripatus, however, was never found in this situation. 



The area in which the great majority of tlie specimens was 

 obtained was very limited in extent, being about 200 yds. in 

 length by 100 yds. in breadth. Subsequently a close search in a 

 somewhat similar locality, situated to the N. H. near the mouth 

 of the Sireng stream, resulted in the discovery of a few more 

 individuals. In addition, a solitary example was found at a 

 higher altitude by the 32nd Sikh Pioneers, while cutting a road 

 between Upper Rotung and Renging. The distance between the 

 two furthest points at which specimens were obtained did not 

 exceed four and a half miles, the altitude ranging from about 

 1200 to 2000 ft. 



Specimens were kept alive for some time in boxes ; but the 

 breeding season appeared to be over and no observations on the 

 reproduction of the species were made. The young ones found 

 with the adults appeared to be more or less of an age and it seems 

 probable that reproduction takes place onl}^ during the wet 

 season. 



When touched, the specimens, as is usual in the Ony- 

 chophora, ejected a semitransparent viscous fluid from the oral 

 papillae. The discharge was directed with considerable accuracy 

 towards the objects by which it was irritated, and was at first 

 abundant in quantity : on succeeding occasions it was much less 

 copious and, after a day or so of captivity, it was only by violent 



